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brisrht, while the dark margins are either entirely wanting or else represented by a dusky 

 shiide margined occasionally within by a few dull brownish dots. The spot on the forewings 

 is distinct, but paler and usually centered with a small silvery eye. That on the hind wini^s 

 i.i much more distinct than al)Ove, being composed of a bright silvery spot in the centre de- 

 fined by a dark browu line which is in turn encircled witli dull orange. Immediately 

 above and alittle towards the outer edge is a much smaller spot of the same character ; there 

 is also a reddish dot on the anterior edge, about the middle of the wing. The antennae are 

 pink, with the knobs at their tips of a darker shade; the body is dark above; paler at the 

 sides and underneath. 



The insect appears first on the wing about the middle of May, becoming more plentiful 

 towards the latter end of the month, but the time of its srroate>t abundance is later in the 

 sea.son, after the appearance of the second brood, which is during the latter part of July and 

 throughout August. In the second volume of the " Entomologist," p. y, Mr. Bethune re- 

 marks as follows : " On the 3rd of August, a lovely, bright, warm morning, after an exces- 

 sively wet night, I drove about ten miles along country roads ; every few yards there was a 

 patch of mud, the effects of the heavy rain, and at every patch of mud there were from half 

 a dozen to twenty specimens of C alias jikilodire, at least one, I should think for every yard of 

 distance I travelled. I must then have seen, at a very moderate computation, about ten 

 thousand specimens of this butterfly." 



The caterpillar of the Clouded Sulphur feeds on the cultivated pea, on clover, on the 

 Blue Lupin, Lupinus perenids, and no doubt on many other plants belonging to the order 

 Leguminosa:. The egg, which is a beautiful object, is about one twenty -third of an inch in 

 length, tapering at each end, with twelve or fourteen raised longitudinal ribs, with smaller 

 cross lines in the concave spaces between them. Its colour when first deposited is of a pale 

 lemon yellow, which changes in three or four days to a pale red, then gradually to a bright 

 reil, and from that to dark brown just before the time of hatching. The duration of the egg 

 stage is about seven days. 



The young caterpillar just hatched is one-twelfth of an inch long and of a dull yellow- 

 ish brown colour, but when a little older it changes to a dark green. When full grown it is 

 about an injh long, with a dark green head and body, the, latter with a yellowish white stripe 

 on each side close to the under surface, with an irregular streak of bright red running through 

 its lower portion. The biidy also has a downy look occasioned by its being thickly clothed 

 with very minute pale hairs. 



The chrysalis is about seven-tenths of an inch long, attached at its base, and girt across 

 tlm middle with a silken thread. Its colour is pale green with a yellowish tinge, with a pur- 

 plish red line on each side of the head, darker lines down the middle both in front and behind, 

 and with a yellowish .stripe along the sides of the hinder segments. 



During the heat of summer the chrysalis state u.sually lasts about ten days, 

 so before the butterfly escapes the chrysalis becomes darker and semi-transparent, 

 iugs on the wings showing plainly through the enclosing membrane. 



The Whitk-Lined Morning Sphinx (Deilephila lineata, Fabr.) 



The white-lined morning 

 sphinx is a tolerablj' common 

 insect throughout Ontario. It 

 is seen on the wing generally 

 about twilight or later.altliou-jh 

 it has been met with occassion- 

 ally ic the day time. In its 

 flight it much resembles the 

 humming bird, hovering over 

 flowers into which it inserts its 

 long and slender tongue in 

 search of the nectar there stored, 

 which constitutes its food. In 

 commou with many other spliicz 

 motlitt its structure is robust 



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